Bøger af Naomi Metzl

Alexa Samson's life is a struggle, but this year she is determined not to care. As the twenty-first century trundles into gear, sixteen-year-old Alexa has only two years left of school. Two years until she can piece her shattered family together. All she has to do in the meantime is survive. She just wished it was as simple as it sounded. Forced to live apart from her fourteen-year-old, heroin-addicted sister and attend the draconian Redgrove College, Alexa is subjected to a world to which she does not belong and a life she cannot control. When her affair with the teacher she trusted to help see her through Redgrove turns violent, her life is plunged into chaos and she is forced into the realm of another teacher who she fears she cannot trust. Alexa's only beacon of hope is the nightmare that has plagued most of her life and the miracle it suddenly promises of being able to transform her life when she turns eighteen. Until then, Alexa is forced to take whatever actions necessary to try and survive and secure a decent life for her and her sister.

Sienna sometimes felt like she was a cat born into a human body, her life divided into multiple lives. So far she had lived through two. Her first death had been metaphorical. It marked the end of her early childhood being raised by her aunt and uncle, and her return to the parents who had only ever just been around. Sienna's second life promised to be nothing but isolation and pain - until Flynn came along. Flynn made life bearable. They were companions, soulmates and deeply in love. For six years they forged their own path against the will of their parents, knowing that, ultimately, it would make no difference. The paths their parents had mapped out were so set, so solid, and so encompassing, all paths, rebellious or not, would lead them there. But in one night, one reckless moment, four young paths were destroyed. Only Sienna's remained somewhat intact, but it every way that mattered, she was dead. Only her body survived to carry her into her third life. Her heart and soul had died with Flynn. And so Sienna was exiled back to the uncle who had never forgiven her for leaving him and forced to exist in a purgatory of social and emotional isolation. In the middle of it, the ghost of Flynn's smile, shining out from the most unlikely source.

Life has never gone to plan for Alexa, but as she looks around, she realises she now has everything she ever asked for. Bethany. A home. Family. Friends. Security. She just does not understand why she feels so lost and alone. Does she really need Marcus in her life to feel happy? Or is it the secrets of her past weighing her down?Alexa has spent her whole life trying to outrun her past, but the safe and simple life she has created for her and Bethany has slowed her down. When her past finally catches up with her, Alexa will be confronted by all she has tried so hard to forget. In the fourth and final instalment in the Marble Road series, questions will finally be answered and the secrets of Alexa's childhood will be revealed.

The much awaited sequel to Marble Road, Waiting for the Silver Lining follows Alexa Samson as she journeys through her last year at Redgrove College. In just one more year, Alexa will be free. One year until the end of school. One year until she is eighteen. One year until she can claim her miracle lottery win. One year until she save Bethany from the streets and heroin. All Alexa has to do is make it through. One more year. With the support of the Whites at home and Mr Knight at school, Alexa is able to believe that this might be possible, as they help steer her life towards something more than liveable. For the first time in her life, she is able to experience the joy of being truly part of a family. However, when Alexa's street-life collides violently with the Whites' peaceful home-life, she is forced to choose between the foster family she loves and the sister she can't live without. That one moment will make Alexa confront her greatest fears - the horror of her childhood nightmares, the terror of losing those she loves most - of losing Bethany - and even her own life.Perhaps she had been right, and the only way to touch the silver lining was to die.

You can't put a price on freedom, but Alexa wished she could. Suddenly rich beyond her wildest dreams, and yet the things she wants most cannot be bought - physical freedom for her sister, emotional freedom from their pasts. A family. Love. It leaves Alexa stuck in a battle between her past that refuses to die, he future that remains scarily uncertain, and her perpetually conflicted present, struggling to balance her own desires with the demands of others. In this third instalment of the Marble Road series, following on from Waiting for the Silver Lining, Alexa realises that true freedom is not given. It must be fought for. She is just not sure she is strong enough to win the battle and fears what casualties will be suffered in her pursuit of a new life.